The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
by Twain, Mark [; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. c1917. Original Cloth. A Fine Harper & Brothers edition in the original red, gilt decorated cloth, published in May 1917 (E-R) and following the 1892 first edition published by Charles L. Webster. In the scarce, still Very Good dust-jacket with a few chips and closed tears; The astonishing tale of a pauper who couldn't get a £1,000,000 bank-note changed, yet who was enriched by its mere possession ; 8vo; frontispiece, [iv], 52, [2] pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29167
- Title
- The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
- Author
- Twain, Mark [; Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- c1917
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Satire Humor Irony
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Twain, Mark; By Year Of Issue / 1910s;
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